One day Mullah bought 9 pounds of meat, and took it home to his wife, and then returned to work. Immediately, his wife called her friends and prepared a superb dinner. In the evening, Mullah returned for supper, and his wife offered him nothing but bread and onions. He turned to her and said, “But why haven’t you prepared anything from the meat?”
“I rinsed the meat, and was about to put it on the stove, when this damn cat snuck in and stole it away,” she said. Mullah at once ran to get the scales. Then he found the cat, and weighed it. It was exactly 9 pounds! He turned to his wife and exclaimed, “Look here! If what I have just weighed is the cat, then where’s the meat? But if this is the meat, then where’s the cat?”